Tag: LINUXWORLD

Let's be honest here: BSD is incredibly powerful, stable, and secure, but it's never been the first OS that enters folks' minds when you utter the word "desktop." There are some new ideas in the BSD world, however, and the people behind those new ideas are trying hard to expand BSD to more desktops. At LinuxWorld, the evidence for that is PC-BSD, a version of BSD designed to be easy to install and ...

Greetings, DLS readers. I'm reporting from LinuxWorld 2006, in cool & breezy San Francisco. Over the next few days I'll be letting you know about what's new, what's cool, and what's interesting at our annual PenguinCon. Some of you have probably heard about Xandros Desktop, an attempt to create a Linux distro that's super easy to use and very friendly and inviting for those switching over ...

Microsoft is at Linuxworld (in flame retardant suits no doubt), and they've already taken the wraps off their free version of Virtual Server. So what's left? How about a site on how MS is trying to make all their toys play nice with Linux? Named Port25, the site is supposed to be an open view of what Microsoft is doing for interoperability between their tools and Linux offerings, without all that ...